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"Now maybe they will all start driving a lot more in the next 10 years but it doesn't appear to be happening so far."

Indeed. My position (that traffic doesn't inevitably rise with population and economic growth and can fall) is conservative, in that it projects current trends and is based on undisputable recent evidence. Richard's view that traffic will rise is based, unless he has something to show us, on magic.

So, Grand Wizard Greenhough, what developments do you think will happen to make driving around London more desirable in the next 15 years than it has been in the last 15 years? 'Show your working out', as you evidently weren't taught in school. Once you've done that, explain why those developments have to happen and why we can't just decide we don't want them and instead carry on building a city with declining modal share for cars as we've been doing for over a decade?